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Performance experimental data of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell considering the variation of the relative humidity of reactants gases Mayken Espinoza-Andaluz a, *, Jordy Santana b, Tingshuai Li c, Martin Andersson c, d nica y ESPOL Polytechnic, Escuela Superior Polit ecnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Facultad de Ingeniería Meca n, Centro de Energías Renovables y Alternativas, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Km. 30.5 Ciencias de la Produccio Vía Perimetral, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador b nica y Ciencias de la Escuela Superior Polit ecnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Facultad de Ingeniería Meca n, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Km. 30.5 Vía Perimetral, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador Produccio c School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2006 Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan, China d Department of Energy Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, Lund, Sweden a
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Article history: Received 7 October 2019 Received in revised form 16 October 2019 Accepted 21 October 2019 Available online 28 October 2019
The data collected in this article is based on a performance test of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC). The behavior the different parameters of a PEFC is analyzed considering different aspects relative to the inlet gases temperatures. The fuel cell was evaluated by means of a current sweep at different percentages of relative humidity between the feed gas and the cell. The relative humidity values were established by means of the temperature setting. The data presented show the experimental response of the cell in real time, which can be used to perform a depth analysis or they can be a starting point for material and performance investigation. In addition, charts presenting the voltage and power density behavior as a function of the volumetric flows of the anode (H2) as well as cathode (O2). The data presented in this article are originally from our research performed in [1]. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Fuel cell Relative humidity Performance Voltage Power density
DOI of original article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.09.098. * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses:
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Specifications Table Subject Specific subject area Type of data How data were acquired Data format Parameters for data collection
Energy Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Tables Charts Current Sweep e Experimental data taken from fuel cell test system
Raw and analyzed The gases used were H2 and O2, the inlet pressure are kept at 55 psig. The water employed was ASTM Type I, and the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) was tested at 80 C. Data were collected by varying the percentages of relative humidity in function of the inlet temperature of gases reactants. Description of data Data were collected through the Fuel Cell® software, which is directly connected to the control collection system tester of the fuel cell. cnica del Litoral, Ecuador. (LabData source location Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources, Escuela Superior Polite FREE) Data accessibility The raw data files are provided in the Data in brief Dataverse, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N1RU9X [2]. Related research article Espinoza-Andaluz M et al., Empirical correlations for the performance of a PEFC considering relative humidity of fuel and oxidant gases, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, https://doi.org/10. 1016/j.ijhydene.2019.09.098. In press [1].
Value of the Data The experimentally obtained data shows the performance of a PEFC at different relative humidity values. The PEFC behavior is required to design improvements from a cell scale point of view. The graphic representation of the data helps to observe the behavior of a PEFC as a function of relative humidity enabling interpretation and ability to carry out new investigations based on the graphics shown in this document. Experimental data collection takes considerable time, i.e., these data give a focus on the cell behavior without having to perform the test themselves.
1. Data description The shared data are obtained from an experimental test where a PEFC was evaluated at different relative humidity conditions by means of a current sweep. This was achieved by configuring the temperatures of the feed gases and the cell in different proportions. Due to the great amount information. The data are sharing online on the data repository [2], while some relevant diagrams for their analysis are showed in this article. The volumetric flow in the anode and cathode side were considered as independent variables while the voltage and power density were taken as the dependent variable.
1.1. Voltage as power density as a function of the volumetric flow In Figs. 1 and 2 it can be observed that the behavior of the voltage as a function of the volumetric flow for various relative humidity conditions. The experimental data were obtained by configuring the volumetric flow values using the computational tool for setting the conditions. The stoichiometric ratios employed for the data collection were established at 1.2 for the H2 flow and 2.5 for the O2, both flows were configured based on the applied load. Similarly, in Figs. 3 and 4 the behavior of the power density is shown as a function of the volumetric flow of the anode and the cathode flow fields. Subsequently in Table 1, a brief part of experimental data collected in the fuel cell performance test is shown, specifically the data shown are for a relative humidity of 16%, having as the Anode/Cell/ Cathode temperature settings with values of 40/80/40 respectively. The remaining data for the following relative humidity and temperature settings are displayed in the data repository [2]. The data shown were recorded according to the time step, where the parameters as current, current density, power density, cell voltage, anode temperature (hydrogen inlet), cell temperature, cathode
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temperature (oxygen inlet), volumetric flow in the anode and cathode, were collected directly by using a fuel cell data acquisition.
2. Experimental design, materials, and methods 2.1. Data acquisition The data acquisition system consists of a Fuel Cell® software, a GPIB Instruments control device cable and a fuel cell test System from Scriber®. The use of the mentioned tools allows us to control the input variables of the experiment from a peripheral device. Variables such as the inlet temperatures of the H2/O2 feed gases were controlled, the respective volumetric flows and the current load applied to the cell were tested as every step in the process of the data collection. Also, by means of the computational tool it is possible to control the opening of the valves of the system, and to configure the different types of experiments that can be carried out with the equipment. For more information on the fuel test System readers are referred to Ref. [3]. 2.2. Experimental design Initially, an inlet pressure of the H2/O2 feed gases was set at 55 psig, N2 was used as a purge gas to keep the flow distribution system clean and avoid the reactions with the other reagents. The water used was ASTM type I (with 18 MU cm 1 minimum resistivity), because the membrane electrode assembly should be prevented from contamination. The evaluation of the performance of the cell in several conditions of relative humidity was carried out to perform an analysis based on the maximum efficiency temperature of the cell, i.e., 80 C [4]. The mentioned temperature is kept constant, then a configuration was made for the gases entering to the systems. Temperature of the gases are established in the range of 40 Ce80 C, in steps of 10 C. This temperature step corresponds to the double of the considered in a previous research that involve a PEFC with similar characteristics [5]. The relative
Fig. 1. Voltage of a single cell as function of the gas flow at the anode side measured at several percentages of relative humidity.
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Fig. 2. Voltage of a single cell as function of the gas flow at the cathode side measured at several percentages of relative humidity.
Fig. 3. Power density of a single cell as function of the gas flow at the anode side measured at several percentages of relative humidity.
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Fig. 4. Power density of a single cell as function of the gas flow at the cathode side measured at several percentages of relative humidity. Table 1 Experimental data collected in the fuel cell performance test at 16% of relative humidity, i.e., Anode/Cell/Cathode temperatures are 40/80/40 respectively. Time Current Current Density Power Density (s) (A) (mA.cm 2) (mW.cm 2)
Voltage Temp. Temp. Temp. (V) Anode ( C) Cell ( C) Cathode ( C)
Flow Anode Flow Cathode (l.min 1) (l.min 1)
60 120 180 240 300 360 420 480 540 600 660 720 780 840 900 960 1020 1080 1140 1200 1260 1320 1380 1440 1500 1560
0.797 0.746 0.706 0.670 0.640 0.614 0.591 0.569 0.551 0.531 0.515 0.499 0.483 0.468 0.452 0.435 0.417 0.399 0.381 0.364 0.343 0.323 0.291 0.263 0.224 0.158
0.0470 0.0477 0.0473 0.0472 0.0476 0.0468 0.0469 0.0471 0.0477 0.0468 0.0471 0.0469 0.0473 0.0473 0.0467 0.0469 0.0470 0.0500 0.0528 0.0557 0.0581 0.0611 0.0636 0.0671 0.0698 0.0710
0 0.253 0.501 0.751 1.000 1.249 1.496 1.751 2.002 2.250 2.503 2.749 2.997 3.249 3.498 3.745 3.999 4.251 4.497 4.750 5.000 5.246 5.493 5.749 5.998 6.251
0.000 10.115 20.031 30.035 39.988 49.956 59.833 70.046 80.071 89.985 100.130 109.960 119.890 129.950 139.930 149.800 159.950 170.040 179.860 189.980 200.010 209.860 219.720 229.950 239.920 250.030
0.0 7.5483 14.1320 20.1330 25.5790 30.6690 35.3510 39.8770 44.0980 47.7790 51.5400 54.9260 57.9080 60.8590 63.2700 65.1920 66.7140 67.8990 68.4970 69.1510 68.6420 67.7860 63.9450 60.4080 53.6770 39.4610
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
0.0716 0.0870 0.1017 0.1145 0.1288 0.1422 0.1564 0.1706 0.1828 0.1973 0.2129 0.2252 0.2381 0.2510 0.2655 0.2800 0.2924 0.3046 0.3203 0.3344 0.3497 0.3610 0.3752 0.3904 0.4060 0.4172
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humidity calculation was obtained as the ratio between the saturation pressure of the cell at 80 C and the saturation pressure of the feed gases at their corresponding inlet temperature. This analysis can be carried out since the system has humidifier tanks which saturate the feed gases to their dew point, according to the set temperature. This experiment was designed considering some specifications described in Ref. [6]. The temperature of the gases play an important role during the energy conversion process specially when phase change occurs [7]. Acknowledgements The authors kindly acknowledge the financial support from FIMCP-CERA-05-2017 project. Computational and physical resources provided by ESPOL are also very grateful. In addition, Åforsk project No 17e331 is gratefully acknowledged. Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. References [1] M. Espinoza-Andaluz, J. Santana, M. Andersson, Empirical correlations for the performance of a PEFC considering relative humidity of fuel and oxidant gases, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy (2019) 1e12, xxxx, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.09. 098. [2] M. Espinoza-Andaluz, J. Santana, T. Li, M. Andersson, Performance of a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Considering the Variation of the Relative Humidity of Reactants Gases (Dataset), Harvard Dataverse, 2019, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ N1RU9X. [3] Scribner Associates Inc, in: Fuel Cell Test System Scribner Associates Model 850e Operating Manual, 2010. http://ww2.che. ufl.edu/unit-ops-lab/experiments/FC/FC-Manual-850C-Rev-G. ra, D. Hissel, A. Bouscayro, P. Delarue, Energetic macroscopic representation of a fuel cell-supercapacitor [4] L. Boulon, M.C. Pe system, VPPC 2007 - proc. 2007 IEEE Veh. Power Propuls. Conf. (2007) 290e297. ~ o, A detailed experimental study of a PEFC's behavior considering [5] G.V. Espinoza, M. Espinoza-Andaluz, G.A. Almeida Pazmin different temperature conditions, Energy Procedia 158 (2018) (2019) 1394e1399, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01. 340. [6] V. Ramani, H.R. Kunz, J.M. Fenton, Metal dioxide supported heteropolyacid/Nafion® composite membranes for elevated temperature/low relative humidity PEFC operation, J. Membr. Sci. 279 (1e2) (2006) 506e512. n, T. Li, M. Andersson, Diffusion parameter correlations for PEFC gas diffusion layers [7] M. Espinoza-Andaluz, R. Reyna, A. Moyo considering the presence of a water-droplet, xxxx, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019. 08.144.